%0 Journal Article
%A Beguin, J.
%A McIntire, E.J.B.
%A Raulier, F.
%T Salvage logging following fires can minimize boreal caribou habitat loss while maintaining forest quotas: An example of compensatory cumulative effects
%B Journal of Environmental Management
%D 2015
%V 163
%P 234 - 245
%X Protected area networks are the dominant conservation approach that
is used worldwide for protecting biodiversity. Conservation planning
in managed forests, however, presents challenges when endangered
species use old-growth forests targeted by the forest industry for
timber supply. In many ecosystems, this challenge is further complicated
by the occurrence of natural disturbance events that disrupt forest
attributes at multiple scales. Using spatially explicit landscape
simulation experiments, we gather insights into how these large scale,
multifaceted processes (fire risk, timber harvesting and the amount
of protected area) influenced both the persistence of the threatened
boreal caribou and the level of timber supply in the boreal forest
of eastern Canada. Our result showed that failure to account explicitly
and a priori for fire risk in the calculation of timber supply led
to an overestimation of timber harvest volume, which in turn led
to rates of cumulative disturbances that threatened both the long-term
persistence of boreal caribou and the sustainability of the timber
supply itself. Salvage logging, however, allowed some compensatory
cumulative effects. It minimised the reductions of timber supply
within a range of ∼10% while reducing the negative impact of cumulative
disturbances caused by fire and logging on caribou. With the global
increase of the human footprint on forest ecosystems, our approach
and results provide useful tools and insights for managers to resolve
what often appear as lose–lose situation between the persistence
of species at risk and timber harvest in other forest ecosystems.
These tools contribute to bridge the gap between conservation and
forest management, two disciplines that remain too often disconnected
in practice.
%Z doi=(http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.08.009); timestamp=(2015.09.02)
%( 0301-4797
%K Woodland caribou
%# nafon9
%U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479715302139
%F BeguinMcIntireRaulier2015
%3 BibTeX type = ARTICLE